---
name: "Dieter Meier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dieter-meier"
fi1m_id: "dieter-meier"
imdb_id: "nm0576666"
tmdb_id: 131226
wikidata_id: "Q526407"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "4 March 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T21:34:21.100265+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dieter Meier

## Identity

Dieter Meier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dieter-meier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dieter-meier
- **IMDb ID:** nm0576666
- **TMDB ID:** 131226
- **Wikidata ID:** Q526407
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Meier, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q526407, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0576666/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131226

Composer. Born 4 March 1945 in Zürich, Switzerland.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 4 March 1945, Zürich, Switzerland
- **Also known as:** Yello, Sam Hopkins
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Meier, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q526407, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0576666/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131226

## Biography

Dieter Meier (born 4 March 1945) is a Swiss musician, conceptual artist, actor and director. He is the frontman, vocalist and lyricist of the electronic music duo Yello, formed in the late 1970s with Boris Blank.

Meier began as a conceptual artist, exhibiting work from the late 1960s, including at Documenta 5 in 1972. He studied law but did not complete his degree. Yello provided the music for the 1990 film *Nuns on the Run*. As an actor he has appeared in *Finsterworld* (2013) and *Pledge This!* (2007). He has also directed films including *Lightmaker* (2001).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, allmusic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nuns on the Run* (1990), Fi1m 54, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/nuns-on-the-run.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Yello: Point* (2020), Actor
- *Yello - Live At Montreux Jazz Festival 2017* (2020), Actor
- *Yello - Live in Berlin* (2017), as Vocals
- *Solness* (2015), as Knut
- *Finsterworld* (2013), as Furrier
- *Yello by Yello - The Anthology* (2010), Actor
- *Pledge This!* (2007), as Gamsie
- *Lightmaker* (2001), Director, Writer
- *Yello - Essential* (1992), Director
- *Off Season* (1992), as Max
- *Just Visiting This Planet* (1991), Music
- *The Yello Video Show - Live At The Roxy NY Dec 83* (1991), Actor
- *Nuns on the Run* (1990), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/nuns-on-the-run.md)
- *Leo Sonnyboy* (1989), as Willi
- *Dandy* (1988), as Music
- *Zoning* (1987), as Wassily Buckminster-Zech
- *Dirt* (1986), Music
- *Home Movies 1971-81* (1985), Actor
- *Jetzt und alles* (1981), as Singer · Director, Writer
- *Petty-Bourgeois Dracula Idyll at the Family Table* (1979), Camera Operator
- *81,000 Units* (1974), Director
- *My Grandparents* (1972), Director
- *Genuine Discussion Film* (1971), Director
- *Shutter* (1967), Director
- *Santa Inocencia*, Production Supervisor

## Gallery

- ![Dieter Meier](https://film.one/media/person/5556787/gallery-d2793d785d1c.jpg) Dieter Meier — https://www.flickr.com/photos/das-blaue-sofa/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Dieter_Meier_on_October_15%2C_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Schweizer Filmpreis "Quartz" 2012 Dieter Meier (Yello)](https://film.one/media/person/5556787/gallery-12efb962cc72.jpg) Schweizer Filmpreis "Quartz" 2012 Dieter Meier (Yello) — albinfo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Quartz_2012_DieterMeier.jpg/1280px-Quartz_2012_DieterMeier.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/dieter-meier